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maya_b

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hardware/firmware/embedded-systems designer/engineer/consultant

I seem to boost far more than I post. I should do something about that.

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lauren, to random
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Apple telling employees in San Diego that the only way they could keep their jobs was to move to Austin was tantamount to firing most of them, and disgusting beyond measure, especially for female employees for whom moving to Austin could potentially be a death sentence in a complicated pregnancy under horrific Texas laws.

maya_b,
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@lauren
and financial liability on commercial propety lease payments they can't get out of

maya_b,
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@lauren and it's not just apple that's losing out on it's commercial real-estate spend.
cold hard balance sheet truths sadly trump humanity all too often

maya_b,
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@lauren
true. but far fewer raised eyebrows at vanity campuses pre-pandemic than now, esp when the feasibility of productive remote wasn't yet proven.
I design electronics and am jealous of anyone with only a laptop, that doesn't need a bench full of equipent to do their job. Either I pay many thousands for it all, or I go somewhere where someone else has paid for it all.

maya_b,
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@lauren
again i don't disagree, though there was some hope for Beto pulling an upset, and some wisheful thinging that Texas wouldn't go off the deep end for realz.

Austin used to be a good place for tech, Apple was slow to the party, and "It's business, not personal"

Now anyone who can leave Austin tech is doing so, or has already left.

maya_b,
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@complexmath @lauren
agreed. I'm cynical about the financial incentives for Apple to break ground in the first place and how much that kept them from pulling the plug. I also have a cynical assumption apple figured they'd find someone to fill the seats in that campus regardless. and can now use this to trim some costs from the books.

plus it costs less to have people quit (for good reason!) than to pay severance.

maya_b,
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@lauren
Apple also spent $1B on their new Austin campus. Now they can't get anyone to work there. The relocation move is lousy and reprehensible but Texas wasn't as dangerous when the plan was hatched
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-expands-in-austin/

maya_b,
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@lauren
I think Zoom ordering their employees back stating "you can't be productive remotely" was the most outrageous of them all

GottaLaff, to TeslaMotors
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🤦🏻‍♀️😳 & have discussed a possible advisory role for the Tesla leader should TFG reclaim WH, the latest sign that the once-frosty relationship between the 2 has thawed.

The role hasn’t been fully hammered out and might not happen, but they discussed ways to give Musk formal input & influence over policies related to border security and the economy, both issues on which Musk has grown more vocal.
https://apple.news/A12U7FLPbQbm6Nfj7Y1_glQ

maya_b,
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@GottaLaff

maybe ...
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-says-stop-electric-car-sales-1851503550

soc_i_ety, to random
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If you ever wondered why Canadians are concerned about their U.S. neighbours.

“We are coming to liberate Canada,” Tucker Carlson tells Trudeau in voicemail

:mastodon:

https://tnc.news/2024/01/23/we-are-coming-to-liberate-canada-carlson1/

maya_b,
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@soc_i_ety @Jorsh
Just launch him over the north pole ...

RickiTarr, to random
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Oppression is not a competition.

maya_b,
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@RickiTarr

but but but who's going to win the opression olympics then?!?!

🤦‍♀️

StillIRise1963, to random
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Kids in the back, please remember that elections are not about one single issue. Your rights and climate change are on THE AGENDA.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

liztai, to TikTok
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I don't use . Don't even have an account. Can't stand the app. But this thing with TikTok in the US is grossing me out. It's one thing to ban the thing but quite another to force the co to sell the platform to a US company. That's like a land grab, even if money is exchanged. This is going to put a chill on business relations not just with China but with companies globally, because they'll be wondering, "will I be the next Bytedance? Will they try to grab my company too?"

maya_b,
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@liztai

It also really does nothing to solve the underlying rational which is user data privacy - why not regulate consumer data protections?

What it really signals is that only US companies can profit from consumer surveillance.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

maya_b,
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@RickiTarr

There's a philosophy(?) that:
We aren't responsible for how we got to this moment, but we are responsible for what we do from now going forward.

I like that as it allows us to change, acknowledge screw-ups, and move forward to a better place. We can acknowledge, own and move on positively.

However, that conflicts directly with the litigious nature we've fallen into, and any admission is something to be punished, rather than a teachable/learning moment.

StillIRise1963, to random
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The two WORST living immigrants are Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch. They are white.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

RickiTarr, to random
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Tapas in most of Spain: Free snacks when you order drinks.

Tapas in the U.S.: $10 Beers, $18 cocktails, $20 for 4 pieces of garlic bread with some tomato on it.

maya_b,
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@RickiTarr

Aperitivo (after work, before dinner, or "dinner" if you're a broke grad student) in Italy is free snacks with drinks too

StillIRise1963, to random
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All the white people on TV are picking apart Lloyd Austin. They NEVER pick apart FASCISTS, because they're RACISTS themselves.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963
earlier the US white people were discussing how $50B the EU sent to Ukraine should be spent. They need to shut up until they send their own $50B
supremacist know it alls

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Physicians who turned away patients like that 'were going against evidence-based care and going against what they had been taught in medical school and residency,' she said, 'but felt that they had to provide a certain type of care — or lack of care — just because of the strength of the ethical and religious directives.' ”

"Following religious mandates can be dangerous, Chin and other clinicians said."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/22/the-powerful-constraints-on-medical-care-in-catholic-hospitals-across-america/

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963
or stupid republican mandates
https://wapo.st/3OSXCdR

StillIRise1963, to random
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The fascists won’t help your asses with your climate fucked houses.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

nor will your insurance company.

"oh you bought in a flood plane..."

StillIRise1963, to random
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One of the dumber people I know from undergrad is a physician. Beware out there. Do research and critically assess any professionals you employ. Somebody had to be at the bottom of the graduating class.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

if possible, check any professional review sites. I was referred to one doctor who'd "resigned" his license about the same time a disciplinary note had been placed on his public file, and had only regained a license to practice 3 months earlier.

explains why the referral response was instantaneous but, yea, no, certainly not after reading note, and the average 2.2/5 reviews.

StillIRise1963, to random
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It’s interesting to see racism not only seek to destroy the object, but also destroy the racists themselves.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

chickens voting for KFC

StillIRise1963, to random
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No Chinese stealing of data, but Americans and Russians, have at it.🤔

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963
Instead of actual privacy legislation and data protection for end users.

maya_b, to random
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having moved back to north America from the UK, I no longer have any idea what the going rate for a senior freelance electronics engineer is. Any suggestions?

StillIRise1963, to random
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For a nation where the average person has $400.00 in savings, the rhetoric is RIDICULOUS.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

in Canada the estimated amount required to comfortably retire is $1.4M - and that's with free social healthcare included

StillIRise1963, to random
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You'll need life skills to help you navigate the fascism you're setting up for yourself. Good luck with that.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963
https://mastodon.world/@GeekSusie/112031930516242020

melissabeartrix, to random
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Had that game finished over there {USA} yet ... Did Taylor Swift win ? ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

maya_b,
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@asmallteapot @melissabeartrix

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